Friday, 4 November 2016

Silence of the Lambs Opening Shot Log


Shot no
Loc.
Shot type
Camera Movement
Description
Duration (seconds)
1
Forest
CU
Track woman
CU of woman’s face
1


2
Forest
MS
Follow woman, track around woman, follow woman
MS of exercise montage & man coming up to her
44
3
Forest/
EXT compound
LS/WS
Tilt, then pan
Pans down a tree, pans following woman into compound
30
4
EXT compound
WS/LS
Zoom
Compound exposition, then woman running across walkway
11
5
INT compound
MS
Pan, Track back
One of woman’s badly dubbed friends says hello, woman walks down corridor
7
6
INT compound
LS
Pan
Woman walks through scene of men learning guns
9
7
INT Compound
MS
Pan
Exposition, woman walks into elevator
16

1 comment:

  1. This really helped me to learn what I can do in a 2 minute opening, and how slow I can reasonably make my shots if I need to. (This particular opening had some very long shots!)

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